W ELL might Dr. Wellington Koo describt the Three Power Conference in North Africa as epoch-making. It is the com- ment that springs unbidden to the lips. For there is no limit...

T HE daily papers this week have printed strange rumours about the war, most of them suggesting that peace-feelers of some kind are being put out by - Germafty. The fact that...

have the incidental merit of enabling the electors to pay relatively greater attention to a candidate's character and capacity as distin- guished from his party label. Out of...

By STRATEGICUS I N spite of one's dissatisfaction with the result of the very great Allied exertions, there is a perceptible quickening in the develop- ment of the war. The...

By COMMANDER STEPHEN KING-HALL, M.P. T HERE are 615 members of the British House of Commons ; 245 members of the Canadian House of Commons ; 435 repre- sentatives in Congress....

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T O many people Greek problems appear difficult and complicated. This is obviously due to the fact that such people arc not sufficiently well...

By JOHN A. F. WATSON * C HILDREN'S Courts are in the news. It is all to the good that they should be, and not merely because of a recent case which Lord Justice Goddard has...

By W. G. HUMPHREY (Headmaster of the Leys) I T is rather surprising that in the course of the recent widespread discussions stimulated by the White Paper on Educational...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is sad and strange that Oxford, whose very motto is one of illumination, should be the darkest city in all the land today. In other towns some glow-worm...

" Flesh and Fantasy." At the Odeon.—" Divide and Conquer." At the Empire. " Airways to Peace." Generally released. M. DUVIVIER, struggling in Hollywood to recapture the magic...

THE THEATRE Tins is one of George Farquhar's best plays which, unfortunately, means little to present-day playgoers since our public, though passionately devoted to the...

PHANTOM-LIKE, the fawn On spindle legs flees through the forest ; The wary rabbit scuttles in the undergrowth, Tasting, discarding, with nibbling lips ; the mouse Streaks like...

Snt,—May I comment on the letter of " Scholasticus," who offers the " wildly revolutionary suggestion " that the Governors of a School should be its senior Masters? (Presumably...

with the important points raised in " Coalowner's " letter in your issue of Novem- ber 12th. There is also a collier's point of view, as well as a national one, as the recent...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Snt,—It is not possible accurately to foresee exactly what form the post- war general election will take. But the election may be upon us sooner than we...

Sin,—The figures given in Mr. R. H. Wilby's letter can be used to make an interesting point. I have expressed the t938 figures as an approximate percentage of those. of 1922....

" Scholas- ticus," which will find support, though possibly in modified form, from 75 per cent, of teachers. However much the general public, including such personages as...

Sta,—The actual value of good propaganda undoubtedly increases with the prolongation of the war. Is there still room for improvement in propaganda against Nazi-Germany? How many...

education, in no way dependent upon the purses of parents, the main cause of social discontent would vanish in a generation. My plan would be to have three grades of...

Sta,—My Spectator reaches me at very irregular intervals, and having just read witn great interest Kenneth Lindsay's article in the issue for July 3oth, I do not know whether...

IN every county small committees of residents interested in natural his- tory are engaged in putting their ideas of preiervation in writing for the better information of the...

SIR,—My friend, Stephen Bone, usefully reminds me of the omission of an alternative to royal or presidential portrait-heads on stamps. He speaks of the divine heads on ancient...

Slit,—May I, as the editor of the " obscure " Trybuna Polska (" The Polish Tribune "), supply you with some information about it? Trybuna Polska is published by the progressive...

sensitiveness about the Lebanon, Mr. Harold Nicolson cites the history of the First Crusade as bearing " the proud title of Geste Francorum." But surely (I write from memory...

Stat,—I live in a six-roomed cottage which is situated zso yards from the road along which the electric power passes. Some time prior to 5939 I asked the power company for an...

Admiral Fisher Admiral Sir William Fisher. By Admiral Sir William James. (Mac- millan. 8s. 6d.) Tins little book is a tribute of friendship, and reflects throughout with great...

Thomas Barnes of The Times." By Derek Hudson. (Cambridge University Press. xos. 6d.) APART altogether from its intrinsic merits, this book was badly needed, for the lack not...

THE text of this work runs to 131 small pages, which its author share in almost equal parts, one writing a section entitled " Map Making," the other " The History of Maps." The...

A GREAT deal of this book would have been impressive and plausible if it had been written in 191o, and still more so if it had been written around 1SSo. Then, confident...

Religion, Science and Society in the Modern World. By A. D. Lindsay. (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d.) IN this little book the Master of Balliol has published three lectures...

Water on the Steps. By Peter de Polnay. (Secker and Warburg. 9s. 6d.) Sarah. By Winifred Carter. (Selwyn and Blount. 8s. 6d.) Diana Goes Hunting. By Jean Alison Grahame. (Eyre...

The Doctrine of the Trinity. By Leonard Hodgson. (Nisbet. ass.) THE doctrine of the Trinity is at once the most characteristic and the most perplexing feature of the orthodox...

SOLUTION ON DECEMBER 17th The winner of Crossword No. 245 is Mrs. MARY Rose, 103 Old Bath Road, Cheltenham.

[A Doak Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, December 14th....

This pleasing and often entertaining record of the now one hundred years' old activity of Batsford, the famous publishers, has been written by Mr. Hector Bolitho, with plentiful...

By CUSTOS IT is fashionable in these days for South American debtors to strike hard bargains with their creditors, and there is not very much that the creditors can do about...